Land transportation history

Land Transportation Timeline-Mfiedler

By Matthew.Fiedler

  • First Locomotive

    First Locomotive
    First locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick

  • Tramway

    Tramway
    A lightly laid railway for such as logging or mining (the original use of a word).

  • Rail Transport

    Rail Transport
    First commercially successful steam locomotive by Matthew Murray.

  • Paved Road

    Paved Road
    MacAdam published treeties desribing new method of building roads.

  • 2 Wheel Mechanical Transport

    2 Wheel Mechanical Transport
    First human propelled bicycle appeared.

  • Steam Engine

    Steam Engine
    A locomative that produces power through a steam engine.

  • Electric Carriage

    Electric Carriage
    An automobile which is prepelled by an electric motor using electrical energy stored in batteries or another energy storage device.

  • Internal Combustion Engine

    Internal Combustion Engine
    Jean Lenoir was a belgaine engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1859.

  • Patent granted for Karl Benz Engine

    Patent granted for Karl Benz Engine
    Karl Benz was a german engine designer and car engineer generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline engine power car.

  • Pneumatic Tire

    Pneumatic Tire
    A tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air.

  • First Car

    First Car
    In 1893, the first running, gasoline-powered American car was built and road-tested by the Duryea brothers of Springfield, Massachusetts.

  • Buick

    Buick
    Brand of automobile that originated in 1899 and taken over by James Whiting who brought in William Durant in 1904 to manage structure.

  • Mass Production in the U.S.

    Mass Production in the U.S.
    It began in the United States with the 1901 Oldsmobile built the American car manufacture Ransome Eli Olds.

  • Automatic Transmission

    Automatic Transmission
    It was invented by the Sturtevant brothers of Boston.